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Happiness in Magazines

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Happiness in Magazines
Studio album by
Graham Coxon
Released17 May 2004 (2004-05-17)
Genre
Length45:01
LabelTranscopic, Parlophone
ProducerStephen Street
Graham Coxon chronology
The Kiss of Morning
(2002) 		Happiness in Magazines
(2004) 		Love Travels at Illegal Speeds
(2006)
Singles from Happiness in Magazines
  1. "Freakin' Out"
    Released: 8 March 2004
  2. "Bittersweet Bundle of Misery"
    Released: 3 May 2004
  3. "Spectacular"
    Released: 28 July 2004
  4. "Freakin' Out / All Over Me"
    Released: 25 October 2004

Happiness in Magazines is the fifth solo album by Graham Coxon. It was produced by Stephen Street who also produced Blur's first five albums and is Coxon's most commercially successful album to date. Happiness in Magazines reached 19 in the UK Albums chart and was certified Gold.

Production

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Happiness in Magazines was produced by Stephen Street, accompanied by engineer Cenzo Townshend. It was then mastered by Bunt Stafford-Clark at Townhouse Studios in London. The artwork was designed by Alex Hutchinson, with images provided by Coxon.[1] Alongside Coxon, other musicians contributed to the recordings: organ and piano on "Bittersweet Bundle of Misery", "All Over Me", "Hopeless Friend", "Are You Ready?", "Bottom Bunk", and "Ribbons and Leaves" by Louis Vause; backing vocals on "Bittersweet Bundle of Misery" and "Don't Be a Stranger", and marimba on "Don't Be a Stranger" by Angie Pollock; strings on "All Over Me", "Hopeless Friend", and "Are You Ready?" by the Duke Street Quartet; French horns on "Ribbons and Leaves" by Marcus Bates, Pip Eastop, and Phillip Woods. John Metcalf arranged the strings and horns parts that the Duke Street Quartet, Bates, Eastop, and Woods played.[2]

Singles

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Four singles have been released from Happiness in Magazines.

Reception

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Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic77/100[3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
Pitchfork7.5/10[5]
PopMatters7/10[6]
Q[7]
Rolling Stone[8]
Tiny Mix Tapes[9]
Uncut[10]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[11]

Happiness in Magazines was met with generally favourable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 77, based on 23 reviews.[3]

Track listing

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All lyrics and music written by Graham Coxon.[1]

  1. "Spectacular" – 2:48
  2. "No Good Time" – 3:21
  3. "Girl Done Gone" – 3:57
  4. "Bittersweet Bundle of Misery" – 4:53
  5. "All Over Me" – 4:16
  6. "Freakin' Out" – 3:42
  7. "People of the Earth" – 3:04
  8. "Hopeless Friend" – 3:22
  9. "Are You Ready?" – 4:42
  10. "Bottom Bunk" – 3:16
  11. "Don't Be a Stranger" – 3:29
  12. "Ribbons and Leaves" – 4:11

Personnel

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Personnel per booklet and sleeve.[1][2]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Coxon, Graham (2004). Happiness in Magazines (sleeve). Transopic. 7243 5 77747 2 7.
  2. ^ a b Coxon, Graham (2004). Happiness in Magazines (booklet). Transopic. 7243 5 77747 2 7.
  3. ^ a b "Critic Reviews for Happiness in Magazines". Metacritic. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
  4. ^ Happiness in Magazines at AllMusic
  5. ^ Pitchfork Media review
  6. ^ PopMatters review
  7. ^ Q review
  8. ^ Rolling Stone review
  9. ^ Tiny Mix Tapes review Archived 17 July 2012 at archive.today
  10. ^ Uncut review Archived 1 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
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